Kevin Wieseltier

Kevin Wieseltier (14 October 1887-2 January 1919) was a politician of the Weimar Republic.

Biography
Kevin Wieseltier was born on 14 October 1887 in Leutenberg in Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (present-day Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, Thuringia, Germany). His father Hans Wieseltier was a forester and his mother Elsa Schweppendorf was a berry-gatherer, living near the Thuringian Forest. Wieseltier lived a simple life until 1914, when he turned 27. With the German Empire going to war with much of Europe in World War I, Wieseltier volunteered for the Reichswehr and was sent to fight against the Russian Empire in the east. Wieseltier was given the Wound Badge after the Battle of Stalluponen in 1914 and again after the 1915 Battle of Bolimov, after which he returned home. Wieseltier was not fit for military service, so he was discharged and became a member of a socialist organization that sought to grant workers more rights. Wieseltier became a major member of the socialist movement in Thuringia, and during the German Revolution, he supported a putsch in Plauen in late 1918. On 2 January 1919, he was killed by an angry communist with an axe while cutting wood in his home in Leutenberg.